The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, 1865: Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements of the Past Year; In Mechanics and the ... and Botany; Geology and Mineralogy; Meteoro - Hardcover

Timbs, John

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ISBN 10: 0666367698 ISBN 13: 9780666367693

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The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers have awarded the following premiu s - a Telford Medal and the Manby Pre mium, in books, to £orge Henry Phip s, for his paper On the Resistances to Bodies passing through ater,-a Telford Pre mium, in books, to John Baldry Redman, for his paper, On the East Coast, between the Thames and the Wash Estuaries,-a Telford Medal and a Telford Premium, in books, to William Lloyd, for his Description of the Santiago and Valparaiso Railway, Chili, South America; with Remarks upon Resistances from Curves on Railways, and upon coal-burning Locomotives, - a Telford Premium, in books, to William Parkes, for his Description of Lighthouses lately erected in the Red Sea, - a Telford Medal to M. Pernolet (of Paris) for his paper On the Means of Utilizing the Products of the Distillation of Coal, so as to reduce the Price of Coke; with Descriptions of the Ovens, and of the Best Pro cesses in use in Great Britain and on the Continent, in the Manufacture of Coke, - a Watt Medal and a Telford Premium, in books, to Thomas So with, jun., for his pa r On the Actual State of the Wor on the Mont Cenis unnel Victor Emmanuel Railway, and Description of the Machinery employed, - a Watt Medal to William Bridges Adams, for his paper On the Im ental Friction between Wheel Tires and Rails, with Plans or Improvement, - a Watt Medal to James Cross for his paper On the Structure of Locomotive Engines for ascending Steep Inclines, especially when in conjunction with Sharp Curves on Railways, - a Telford Premium, in books, to John Mortimer Heppel, for his paper On the Closing of Reclamation Banks, a Telford Premium, in books, to George Rowden Burnell, for his paper On the Machinery employed 1n sinking Artesian Wells on the Continent.

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